Multi-Millionaire Jimmy Walter Funds Nationwide Ad Campaign to Re-Open 9/11 Investigation
(Don't miss our interview with Jimmy Walter on Thursday at 5:00PM EST.)
Spending over $1,500,000, California-based Jimmy Walter has launched advertising blitzes in America's most prominent newspapers and magazines, including full-page color ads in Business Week, Forbes, Newsweek, the New York Times, Washington Post, Readers Digest, New Yorker, etc., entitled "Are We Safer Now? The 9/11 Report has been published, but some very troubling questions remain unanswered." (walden3.org)
Walter first turned to paid advertising two years ago when he saw the mainstream press self-censoring to support the impending Iraqi quagmire. He felt impelled to get the word out that Colin Powell had lied before for the George H. W. Bush administration and was lying again to the American people, the Congress, and the UN to falsely justify another Gulf War which would increase terrorism, create a new Vietnam, and cause an economic disaster for America. Presciently, his predictions have all come true: the war has increased terrorism against the American people, jobs are scarce, oil is running out, and the world economy and environment are being wrecked by Bush's fanatical actions. Despite the fact that Walter's car was attacked with a 25-pound boulder, and that anonymous people have threatened him, Walter continues his courageous crusade against the Bush administration. (walden3.org)
Walter has more than war on his mind. Even though he is a successful businessman he supports organized labor and a living wage. While in New York City to protest the Republican National Convention, he carried a sign saying, "Fair pay for Firemen and Police". "The police, firemen, EMS, sanitation, and other public labor forces do not have the right to strike or even protest. I have always supported labor as the smart thing for the whole economy", said Walter. He believes that the Republican mayor and governor have perpetrated an injustice on New York's Finest, firemen, and other essential service employees. Walter says, "I believe in "flood up" economics, not "trickle down". If the people at the bottom get money, they spend it, business makes more profits, and more people are hired. The Bush tax giveaway to the rich went to higher interest bearing banks and bonds abroad, not to buy American."
Mr. Walter main focus, his "day job" as he calls it, is using his extensive economic experience to start and operate several progressive, futuristic, sustainable and Eco-friendly enterprises.
Walden Three - Walter's Practical Eco-Utopian Think Tank
If the air could talk, it would most certainly say that Walter is one of the environment's best friends. Known worldwide as an ecological crusader, he heads Walden Three, an environmental based think tank dedicated to preserving our environment while stimulating the economy and providing a luxurious lifestyle for all.
While several Walden's and Walden Two's were started, few survive and none, except a small one (loshorcones.org.mx), still adhere to their progenitor's concepts. Mr. Walter believes th[ey didm't survive because they were truly "off the grid". To do that, he points out, you have to make your own solar cells, glass bottles, pharmaceuticals, computers, plastic, china, knives, forks, steel, transportation vehicles, roads, etc., as well as food: all the things that people consume. To that end, Walden Three incorporates pollution free (including sight and noise) factories so people can work, live, shop, and play within walking, moving sidewalk, or electric tram distance. Moreover, the freight system is built into the people moving system, another efficiency. Everything is connected by the city's broadband Internet. Every person and business has computers with free, unlimited access to all the systems from school to work to entertainment.
Mr. Walter's envisioned practical utopia reaches into all aspects of life, psychology, school, civil law, criminal law, the media, and economics. "Psychology is paramount. Today the media and folklore perpetuate bad psychology. In Walden Three Albert Ellis' rational psychology is taught in K-12, training schools, and on the job (rebt.org and walden3.org). Ellis is the most respected living psychologist and the father of cognitive psychology."
As a patriot, philanthropist, activist with a genius IQ (Cum Laud at Asheville Prep School and winner of the prestigious Morehead Scholarship (moreheadfoundation.org) at UNC. Today. Walter is parlaying his knowledge of business, finance, psychology, economics, behavior management, religion, computer science, and philosophy to build a truly sustainable Eco-Utopian society.
Walden Three is a paradigm for future architectural and biotecture development. (walden3.org) He is working with architect R. Edmond of HASSELL Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, who won the Urban Design Competition for Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Re-structuring and is now planning with him a 4 thousand hectare (~10,000 acres) model city in Ningbo, China. (hassell.com.au) Walter lived in Hong Kong from 1986 to 1992 researching sites for his utopian ideas. He is also working on a plan to replace New York City's transportation nightmare.
Energy: Today's fossil fuel utilities throw away 50% of the energy they burn. By channeling their "waste" energy to heat water and air for businesses and residences, one can eliminate 60% of our electric and gas bills. His city uses combined-cycle gas-turbine technology to generate electricity. This is fueled by synthesis gas made by converting biomass and organic waste materials in a plasma gasification unit to a fuel. The factories in the city channel their "waste" heat to where it is needed as an energy resource.
Transportation: Recycling, freight delivery, and personal transport are streamlined with a computerized and extensive mass transit system. In fact, a mass transportation system that got people where they wanted to go faster and in more comfort would be much cheaper than the money we now spend on automobiles, repairs, tires, gasoline, oil, roads, road repair, accidents, police, courts, jail, traffic school, DUI's, etc."
Health Care: From cradle to grave, health care is a necessity. Instead of taxing businesses, the city provides and manages healthcare through its community service system. This is a general rule in Walden Three.
Business/Economics: His solution is a mixed economy, a strategic combination of capitalism for innovation and socialism for the utilitarian needs of society , tended by people whose quality of work determines their remuneration and rewards - incentives: the core, foremost principal of capitalism.
No Tax: there are no sales, incomes, property, tangible or intangible taxes nor fees in the Walden Three project. The current tax system perverts work. "Executives spend their time avoiding taxes rather than improving products and systems. The savings will be astronomical." (walden3.org)
Walter was born in Tampa, FL in 1947, the son of famed Horatio Alger industrialist, Jim Walter who started Jim Walter Homes with $1,000 in 1946. It eventually became Walter Industries, a conglomerate that included Celotex and U.S. Pipe and Foundry. The company did everything from manufacture ceiling tiles, pipe, and wall board to building and financing low income homes to oil, gas, and coal production. (walterind.com)
In the past Walter donated over $3 million to Life Skills Foundation, a non-profit educational organization he founded, which successfully helped more than 20,000 prisoners in the Florida Department of Corrections and over 40,000 people nationwide change their lives for the better. His recidivism rates are remarkably low - 20% versus the national average of 66%. Jeb Bush and other conservative governors ended all programs claiming punishment was all that was needed. The result? Crime is on the rise as hundreds of thousands of untrained, unmotivated felons face our jobless economy.
Personally, Walter has overcome his own personal demons: he had a cocaine addiction, now conquered. He is now able to spend more of his attention on society's ills, rather than his own. He believes that this pivotal 9/11 event and this time in history is in fact an opportunity, a calling if you will, to use his money to make a positive difference in the world.
